The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-05-26
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

nessee Railroad, Friday night.
Tom Thornton of HartweIl, lost
over 100 Brown Leghorn and Plym-
outh Rock chickens in one day by
feeding them. on dough in which
some one had put salt.
OF the 1861 tons of fertilizers
inspected and admitted to sale in
Georgia for the season Just closed
10000 were the product of home
manufacture.
The Coyington and Macon road
will reach its depot at Athens
through tunnel 1,155 feet long. to
excayate which will cost $4,000, as
it will be through solid rock.
J. R. Gatewood has an English
walnut tree on his place, few miles
from Americas, that is full OF nuts.
This is the second year it has borne,
and it is thought it will yield ten or
twelve bushels.
John F. Hawley, 26 years of age,
has just been convicted in Bainbridge
of bigamy, having married a lady in
South Carolina, one in Florida and
one in cambridge. He will serve
n
four years in the penitentiary
There are two married students at
tending college at Athens, one being
the father OF children. His wife it
is said, also attends one of the female
institutions of learning in that city.
The husband is in the fresh class and
the wife in the junior.
Mr.. James r. Magill says he uses
sweet milk and molasses TOR collie in
horses and it works well. One pint
and half of sweet milk and half
pint OF molasses, mixed thoroughly,
used as a drench for the sick horse.
will give relief.
The Griffin cotton mills have to
work to their utmost capacity to sup
ply the demand for their goods. A
large firm in st. Louis telegraphed
for fifty bales of goods Tuesday, fear
ing to trust the order by mail lest
they be too late to get them.
W. IL. Bremen, an Atlanta bow,
has just been appointed electrician
and chief superintendent of construc-
ton for the purpose OF erecting an
5000 light, Edison patent, to illumi-
nate the palace OF the Mikado ofJapan.
He has been placed in full control of
Eidson's work abroad, and will leave
Cincinnati in few days tor Shang-
hal, China.
Henry Pope, the negro who, it
will be remembered, was arrested at
Gadsden, Ala, on the charge of com
hitting the outrage upon Miss Ken
drick, OF Chattooga county, was
brought to Summerville on Tuesday.
when he was identified by the young
lady. The negro is described as a
peculiar looking darkey, and one
taat would be instantly recognized
after being seen once. There was
500 reward out for him.
About three miles from Dawson
there is a colOred boy with toes shap-
ed like the claws of a craw fish.
| The boy is about II years old and is
hale and hearty, and works every
day in the field as the others of the
family, who are not deformed in any
way. He has only two toes to a
foot, which branch out at the instep,
and are about 1 ID or 5 inches long.
! The toes are shaped like pot hooks,
coming nearly together at the point.
The boy can wear shoes but they
have to be made in different shape
from those ordinarily found in the
shoe store of this country,
The Jonesboro News says: Mr.. f.
NJ. Allen, of New York, who has
been stopping in our city for two
months, showed us a postal card on
which he had written two sermons
containing 5000 words. 1t is the
greatest feat of which we have ever
heard, ana the best on record The
writing was done with a No. | Spen.
cerian pen, by lamplight, and with
out the aid of magnifying glass.
The sermons in print occupy FIVE
columns in a newspaper, and the
copy made from it can almost all be
read with the naked eye, while all
the words are easily distinguishable
uhder an ordinary magnltylng glass.
MIR. Allen has, in our presence,
written the Lords prayer within a
circle the diameter of the thickness
of lead pencil.
A gentleman residing in the vicin-
ity Of Warnerville, Meriwether coun-
ty, was aroused last Monday night
by an cutlery faom his 13-year-old
daughter, who occupied an adjoining
apartment. He hurried into the
room and was Mortified to find a ne
gro man standing near the bed upon
which his daughter lay covering and
almost frantic with fear. He imme
diately seized the burly rufian and